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Show 0MB No. 1024-0018, NPS Form United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. 8 Page 2 Salt Lake Engineering Works/Bogue Supply Company Building Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, UT in the property in the previous year, during which it applied for building permits for two $6,000 buildings: a brick foundry (permit dated November 18, 1902), and a brick machine shop (dated January 20, 1903). No architect or builder was listed for either building. In a relatively short time, the company had also built a pattern shop (circa 1905) and the shop/warehouse (circa 1904). By the time of the 1911 Sanborn map (the first map that covers the area), the company had also built a spur from the nearby Denver & Rio Grande rail line just to the east of the property. The spur entered the property at the southeast corner and curved though a "yard full of iron & flasks" to the northwest corner next to the warehouse/shop. Along with the four brick buildings the yard had coke sheds, a pump house, and a frame structure attached to the south side of the warehouse/shop used for "ore experimenting." The Salt Lake Engineering Works made its first appearance in the Polk directories in 1904. William Read was the president and manager of the company, with Reuben May as vice-president and superintendent, and Charles G. Ferrell as secretary and treasurer. A 1904 advertisement for the Salt Lake Engineering Works declares it a company of "Founders and Machinists, Manufacturers of Mining, Milling, Concentrating, Smelting Machinery and Castings of all Kinds. Phosphor Bronze a Specialty." The company continued in operation until the 1931 with William E. Cannell as manager through the 1920s. The company specialized in large machinery and equipment for various uses. Examples include timber presses, filter presses, and boring-turning mills. They also produced structural iron and the casting of flywheels, some as large as ten feet in diameter. In the 1930s the Salt Lake Engineering Works does not appear in the city directories. The company may have fallen on hard times due to the depression, but also because of intense competition during the period. The 1932 directory lists seventeen foundries in Salt Lake City, all but one within a mile radius of Salt Lake Engineering Works. Among the competitors were the Lundlin and May (established by Reuben May in the 1920s) and the Bogue Supply Company (a firm established by Warren C. Bogue in 1910). On May 5, 1931, the property deed was transferred to Enid W. Tagert. Enid W. and her husband Iran C. Tagert, and Vera Dahle facilitated the transfer of the deed to Manner Investment Company in June 1932. There is no record of Enid and Iran Tagert in Salt Lake directories, but Vera Dahle and her husband Ernest E. Dahle (a realtor and driver) lived on Salt Lake's east side. The Salt Lake Engineering Works again appears in the city directories between 1938 and 1943 (again with William E. Cannell as manager), but was apparently out of business for good by 1944.2 Between 1910 and 1930, the Bogue Supply Company did business from a location near 300 South and 700 West, just a block north of Salt Lake Engineering Works. Early advertisements for the Bogue Company describe it as a purveyor of "new and second-hand mining and milling machinery." In 1932, the Bogue Company appears in the city directory at the address 412 South 700 West (the address of the pattern shop), probably leasing the pattern shop from the Manner Investment Company. It appears the Bogue Company originally used all three extant Salt Lake Engineering Works buildings. The president of the company at the time was Michael J. McGill. On June 13, 1942, the Manner Investment Company deeded the property to the 2 The Acme Iron & Bronze Foundry is listed at 737 W. 400 South in the 1930 directory. This is only one of several addresses the company used in Salt Lake City. Its connection to Salt Lake Engineering Works is unclear, but definitely short term. |
